Ukraine is compared to Hamas: as an interview with Witcoff shows a shift of brains in the new US government

And I'm shocked. Not from cynicism, we have grown in these two months and you will not surprise anyone. (Although it is not clear at what point we moved from the rhetoric "Russia-the aggressor country" to comparison of Ukraine with Hamas, and there is such). Shock - from the overall picture, which is emerging in the heads of people who actually influence the world. It doesn't even matter how we came to this point.

But after how they model the reality in Ukraine, the depth of shift in the foreign policy thinking of the largest economy of the planet is clearly visible. Stephen Witcoff is not just an official. This is probably the oldest and closest friend of Donald Trump in the current administration. They have known since the 1980s, when Vitcoff was a real estate lawyer and Trump was his client. Their connection has long become personal. And today Vitcoff fulfills the most delicate orders of the President.

He voices not only his vision, but also the mood in the heart of the new US policy. In an interview, Vitcoff calls the main theme of this war "five regions", where "referendums" took place, at which "80-90% of people spoke for being under the rule of Russia. " In its rhetoric, there is no doubt about the legitimacy of these processes - this is called "will". Instead, the words "occupation" or "annexation" are not used at all.

He describes the actual annexation of the territories as "return": "Russia has returned these five regions. It has Crimea. She got what she wanted. " This wording is not a coincidence. It reflects how the conflict is seen from Washington: how the question already needed politically is to be fixed, but the problem in this path is the "elephant in the room" - the Constitution of Ukraine.

Further - direct comparison: Ukraine's introduction to NATO is equated with the presence of Hamas on the border with Israel. In this logic, Ukraine has no right to security unions because it is a "threat". Almost the threat of elections sounds directly, saying "Ukraine will be overcome", Volodymyr Zelenskyy may not resist, because "Against him is a nuclear state with a population four times more.

" And "now is the best time to enter into an agreement" because "Putin has extended his hand across the table" President Donald Trump. Interestingly, Vitcoff is convinced that all the time of the war, the Americans "suffered censorship" that did not allow them to "hear the other side".